The main aim of the SUPERA project is to implement 6 fully-fledged Gender Equality Plans to articulate a structural understanding of gender inequalities, stereotypes and biases in research as a cross-cutting issue to tackle in their complex, multi-layered dimensions and the inclusion of a gender perspective in research and academia, with a holistic set of measures addressing the above-mentioned objectives of the European Commission’s strategy: - Building gender sensitive career management and workplaces; -Transforming decision-making towards accountability, transparency and inclusiveness; and - achieving excellence through strengthening the gender dimension in research and knowledge transfer. Any devised solution to be operationalized through the GEPs should take into account contextual features to reach effectiveness, and that innovative measures or initiatives designed by SUPERA should be brought to the knowledge of relevant stakeholders to feed their own expertise regarding SUPERA’s key areas. Partners within SUPERA’s consortium reflect the ambition of this project: maintaining a dual approach, RPOs are characterized by their size and impact potential, and their multidisciplinarity and vast academic offer (UCM, UNICA, CEU, UC-CES), while RFOs (MINECO, RAS) from the same partner countries as UCM and UNICA, respectively, are integral in maximising outreach and comitment as relevant public entities on a national level. This fact, while adding a complexity layer to GEP implementation, expands the scope of the project and the potential long-term impacts regarding sustainability and institutionalisation. SUPERA will be designed based on four core principles that will tackle the main barriers of implementing GEPs in research organizations: cumulativeness; innovation; inclusiveness and sustainability.

<< Background >>Online Pedagogical Resources for European Universities (OpenU) is an Erasmus+ KA3 project bringing together 21 partners around the topic of digitalisation in higher education. Since the launch of the project in 2019, representatives of European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), ministries of education and research and European networks contributed to the emergence of innovative policies and strengthened long-term strategic and structural cooperation between HEIs.<< Objectives >>OpenU supports European mutual learning, enhances the collection of evidence, and promotes the transferability of innovative practices. It mainly aims to:- Foster cooperation and exchange around topics of blended and online learning, cooperation, and mobility,- Create BLOOM, an open-source European digital infrastructure linking local software and providing interconnectivity, - Support policymaking in the emergence of innovative policies,- Encourage innovative practices and experimentation.<< Implementation >>The project built on close cooperation between the project's clusters through an agile approach to allow evolving needs and feedback to be integrated throughout the project lifetime. Through a set of 21 European partners among which HEIs, ministries and European networks, OpenU targeted diverse stakeholders of teachers, staff, students, European university initiatives, and national and European policies. Policymakers and European universities alliances ensure the project remains sustainable.<< Results >>Outcomes include: • Policy Recommendations on National and European priorities.• Models and guidelines for key educational digital formats.• BLOOM platform connecting different institutions, and providing open content on learning opportunities, collaboration, and mobility.• Experimentation projects fostered within 10 HEIs and compiled into an evaluation report and scientific publications.• Best practices included in public technical, policy and scientific documentations.

H2020 EU-LAC ResInfra project served to boost the bi-regional collaboration on research infrastructures (RIs) between European Union (EU) and Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries. To this aim a variety of different activities were developed that have proven the importance of RIs as a key pillar in boosting the R&D activities between regions and the need to maintain a sustainable collaboration at governmental level. Despite the success of the results of EU-LAC ResInfra Project, there is still work to do in order to have a solid and sustainable framework of cooperation to enhance the bi-regional collaboration on research infrastructures. Latin America and the Caribbean has a unique landscape of natural laboratories that can provide comparative advantages to host the development of RI’s, as well as high impact science on specific thematic areas that are a priority in both regions. It has been deemed necessary to increase the visibility of both EU and LAC RI models and characteristics to advance in a greater collaboration for a common roadmapping exercise, agreements in long term funding, transnational access, capacity building and mutual openness for the development of a RIs common area. EU-LAC ResInfra Plus has brought together a wide and comprehensive consortium of 20 crucial partners from the EU and LAC countries. The project includes a balanced mix of governmental representatives responsible of the development of RIs policies at national level, RTD funding agencies from EU countries (Finland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and Spain) and LAC countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Peru and Uruguay,) as well as a consolidated group of European RIs: Instruct-ERIC, LifeWatch-ERIC, RICAP and MIRRI-ERIC. This broad spectrum of partners gathers to all the RIs stakeholders to ensure that the project activities and outputs serve to strengthening the bi-regional collaboration.

Despite efforts to reduce fragmentation across the European Research Area, the European scientific system is still facing challenges in achieving gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research and innovation. In this context, and in line with ERA policy goals and national contexts, the GENDER-NET Plus ERA-NET Cofund aims to strengthen transnational collaborations between research programme owners and managers, provide support to the promotion of gender equality through institutional change and instigate the integration of sex and gender analysis into research and funding programmes. To do so, project partners – a consortium of 16 committed organisations – will join forces to 1) Implement a joint co-funded call for proposals, 2) Design and implement transnational actions on the promotion of gender equality through institutional change and the integration of sex and gender analysis into research, 3) Update and enlarge the mappings and analyses carried out in GENDER-NET on the promotion of gender equality in research and innovation, 4) Carry out a joint assessment of gender differences and bias in access to research grants and define and develop appropriate conditions for promoting equal opportunities in research funding, 5) Promote and disseminate key findings. GENDER-NET will address these goals through 7 work packages and relies on a strong transnational cooperation between partner EU Member States, Associated Countries, and Third Countries, to contribute to the advancement of gender equality in the ERA.

GENDERACTION will create an innovative policy community for the implementation of the gender priority in the European Research Area (ERA) by setting up a network of representatives appointed by national authorities in 13 Member States (MS) and Associated Countries, with 5 associate partners. The objective is to facilitate networking and exchange among more and less experienced countries to develop knowledge and build capacities, competences and know-how for gender equality and mainstreaming in research and innovation (R&I) among a variety of European and national stakeholders. The network will (1) map, monitor and assess implementation of actions in priority 4 gender equality and gender mainstreaming in national ERA roadmaps of the participating countries and benchmark them against the ERA roadmap; (2) foster exchange and mutual learning among representatives of national authorities in order to achieve policy coordination in priority 4; (3) provide interactive trainings to relevant stakeholders such as nation